search suggestions: Add comment about server history.

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Steve Howell 2022-01-27 13:56:51 +00:00 committed by Tim Abbott
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@ -375,7 +375,14 @@ function get_topic_suggestions(last, operators) {
} }
// Fetch topic history from the server, in case we will need it. // Fetch topic history from the server, in case we will need it.
// Note that we won't actually use the results from the server here
// for this particular keystroke from the user, because we want to
// show results immediately. Assuming the server responds quickly,
// as the user makes their search more specific, subsequent calls to
// this function will get more candidates from calling
// stream_topic_history.get_recent_topic_names.
stream_topic_history_util.get_server_history(stream_id, () => {}); stream_topic_history_util.get_server_history(stream_id, () => {});
const candidate_topics = stream_topic_history.get_recent_topic_names(stream_id); const candidate_topics = stream_topic_history.get_recent_topic_names(stream_id);
if (!candidate_topics || !candidate_topics.length) { if (!candidate_topics || !candidate_topics.length) {